Nisha Duggal, our new Editorial Production Assistant is off to Kitchener in Ontario, Canada this month to take part in artistled CAFKAS annual international exhibition, Peace of Mind. Her work will include a sound installation and a series of offsite […]
Visitors to this years Cambridge Open Studios event, presenting over 300 studios open across the city, could not only view works for sale but also the Wide Open exhibition. Held at Cambridge Artworks a cooperative artists studios based in […]
Contents include: Stephen Cooper resident at the Ashmolean, Rosemary Shirley on how the Braziers’ international residency has changed artists’ lives, and Professional development moves from training to practice. Limousine Bull and Whitechapel shows reviewed, Independent Art School profiled and Gillian […]
Paul Glinkowski talks to Angela Weight, Keeper of Art at the Imperial War Museum, and to some of the artists she has commissioned to make art in response to war situations.
Lucy Wilson looks at the opportunities and aspirations for taking craft and design practice international, in the first of two articles inspired by the Jetset conference.
The training-led development programmes that were the norm in artists’ professional development delivery some years ago are giving way to new projects that focus around contemporary practice and are driven by ‘real world’ situations. They recognise that being a visual […]
In 2005 the Crafts Council has been offered the opportunity to hold an exhibition of British craft in the Axis Gallery in Tokyo. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase examples of their work during their visit to Japan. As […]
If the terms ‘Breakfast Club’ and ‘symposium’ conjure up images of Molly Ringwald in a power suit , think again; you might find yourself in a tucked away studio complex in the Cotswolds talking to artists from all over the […]
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead has recently recruited two new members of staff to join its existing curatorial team. Pippa Coles has been appointed as Head of Programme and Alessandro Vincentelli will take up the post of Curator. […]
Edinburgh-based Collective Gallery celebrates its twentieth anniversary in August with a group exhibition featuring artists who have exhibited with the gallery over the last ten years (a show ten years ago showed artists from the first then years). ‘The Birthday […]
It’s election fever again. Within the next twelve months, numerous lobbying groups will be on the backs of politicians bending their ears about their causes, ranging from Fathers4Justice’s reactionary activism causing major security alerts to the much more reasonable National […]
The selectors of ‘East international 2004’ Neo Rauch and Gerd Harry Lybke, gave the 2004 East award on Saturday 3 July to Justin Mortimer, a London-based artist who studied at the Slade School of Art. Describing Mortimer’s paintings as containing […]
Over 300 artists from forty-nine countries are represented in the ‘3rd International Mini Print Exhibition’, organised through Lessedra Gallery and Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, that opened in June in Bulgaria. Artist Amy Sterly attended the opening thanks to a travel […]
Gillian Nicol reports on two international art festivals and a socially engaged project in Norway.
Edith-Marie Pasquier talks to Stephen Cooper about his residency at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and to Dr Christopher Brown, the museum
Paul Stone examines some of the issues arising from the a-n event in June.
Rosemary Shirley investigates the impact over ten years of the Braziers’ international residency workshop, set up by artists for artists.
At the beginning of July Ilana Mitchell, who is part of a-n’s Communication and Sales Team, took part in the Cumbrian leg of this exchange which included five UK and five Polish artists performing in a four-day festival at Tullie […]
This month we say a fond farewell to Helen Barwick who is upping sticks to head for a new post at the Institute for Learning in London, a new body concentrating on promoting and supporting the professional standing and development […]
The a-n team was at New Designers 2004 at Business Design Centre, London in July to launch the Artists’ toolkits a brand new series of professional practice tools on www.a-n.co.uk that are of value to visual and applied artists […]
Looking back over ten years of Braziers international artists’ workshops World in Motion it’s interesting to see how artists feel about the impact of the workshops on their practice in retrospect. Like Simon Faithfull, who can “track particular career developments […]
In the last year, I have been to a number of lectures and conferences on contemporary art, where the speakers have been women, and top women, with books or an established record to their name. But at every lecture, these […]
Thank you for putting in the excellent information about Aune Head Arts in the networks section of the June edition. We’ve had some good responses and it has definitely helped raise the profile of our networking activities.Nancy Sinclair AHA For […]
S Mark Gubb uncovers The Virtual Fringe, Coventry’s latest arts festival.
Paul Glinkowski talks to artist Jem Finer about his ongoing project Longplayer, and to his collaborator James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel.